UCLA is currently using AtHoc IWSAlerts to protect its campus of more than 60,000 people. AtHoc IWSAlerts was deployed by UCLA IN 2007 and since then it is providing a comprehensive, unified system that manages alert dissemination across multiple channels and physical devices, including network alerting to desktops, telephony alerting, email, SMS text messaging, campus sirens, radio, cable TV and
California’s Emergency Digital Information Service.
The university has used BruinAlert system twice to alert the campus population about potentially dangerous situations. The system warned about the 5.8 magnitude earthquake that impacted Los Angeles in July 2008 and raised an alert for a wildfire near campus in October 2008.
Keith Harrison, immediate past president of CESA believes that UCLA deserves this award for its innovative approach to emergency alerting. The BruinAlert system enables UCLA to reach the entire campus through numerous personal and public devices from a single unified console within minutes.
Simon Berman, vice president of product marketing for AtHoc noted that UCLA has used a progressive approach to emergency preparedness.
“We congratulate UCLA for leading the charge within the higher education system, and we’re excited to be a part of their award-winning application,” Berman said.
The California Emergency Services Association is focused on preserving and protecting property through emergency preparedness and disaster mitigation. The CESA members include emergency managers and planners from city, county, state and federal government, healthcare, education, private industry and public service organizations.
Such emergency systems are becoming more and more popular.
As TMCnet
reported, a central Connecticut town has selected a mass notifications system from a Glendale, California-based provider.
Public officials from
Durham, a town of about 7,000 residents that’s located halfway between New York City and Boston, say they money left over from their Connecticut Department of Emergency Management and Homeland Security budget to help buy the system from
3n Global.
According to Durham First Selectman Laura Francis, Connecticut has allowed many towns in the state to use federal funds to purchase emergency notification systems.
Francis Willett, the emergency management director for the town of Durham, told TMCnet during an interview that about $10,000 came from the federal government, with about $3,000 from the town.
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Anuradha Shukla is a contributing editor for TMCnet. To read more of Anuradha’s article, please visit her columnist page.
Edited by Michael Dinan
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